ODS reporting questions

Hi BW Gurus,
1) Is it possible to report from a staging ODS ( BEx reporting flag switched off ) using an infoset or some other means ?
2) The data valoume in this  ODS is around 200 Million records in Production . What would happen if I changed the setting for the BEx reporting and move the ODS to production ?
Anyone experienced this situation and give clues ?
Thank you
Regards

1)  Yes, I believe you could do this, however if the ODS is considered non-reportable, then there are very few indexes on it (to speed data loading).  With 200 million records, your users would be waiting a long time for results.  I would only do this if there were one or two queries that needed to look at the data, and weren't run often.
2)  By making the ODS reportable, indexes would be built behind the scenes to make querying the dataset bearable.  With 200 million records, I don't know how bearable it would be.  Our largest ODS's are 20 million records and I hate querying them for large sets of data.
Try to keep your data in cubes if at all possible, as things will run much quicker.  Also BI Accelerator works with cubes, but not ODS's (currently).
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